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Trial Urban District Assessments

The Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) is designed to explore the feasibility of using National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to report on the performance of public school students at the district level. As authorized by federal law, NAEP has administered the mathematics, reading, science, and writing assessments to samples of students in selected urban districts public schools.

District Assessment Participation

 

 2002 Reading
and Writing

2003 Reading and Mathematics

2005 Reading,
Science and Mathematics

 2007 Reading,
Mathematics and Writing

 Atlanta School
 District
 

 participated

 participated

 participated

 participated

 Austin Independent
 School District

   

 participated

 participated

 Boston School 
 District

 

 participated

 participated

 participated

 Charlotte-
 Mecklenburg
 Schools

 

 participated

 participated

 participated

 City of Chicago
 School District 299

 participated

 participated

 participated

 participated

 Cleveland Municipal
 School District

 

 participated

 participated

 participated

 District of Columbia

 participated

 participated

 participated

 participated

 Houston Independent 
 School District

 participated

 participated

 participated

 participated

 Los Angeles Unified
 School District

 participated

 participated

 participated

 participated

 New York City Public
 Schools

 participated

 participated

 participated

 participated

 San Diego Unified School
 District

 

 participated

 participated

 participated

NOTE: Results for the District of Columbia public school students, normally included along with NAEP's state assessment results, are also reported in reading and mathematics. Due to an insufficient sample size, the District of Columbia did not participate in the science assessment in 2005 and the writing assessment in 2007.